11 h. ago Estate cars will live on despite EV switch and SUV domination: Skoda previews big

Skoda really is putting the boot in with a new vision for future estate models that proves there's life in the station wagon beyond the combustion engine.

Politics

3 d. ago Murder arrest after two women die five months apart in London

The 40-year-old was first arrested on suspicion of murder on April 1 after Carmenza Trujillo, 53, died in the Aylesbury Estate, south-east London.

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8 d. ago Before and after: Trump’s extreme goldening of the Oval Office

An extravagant – and ongoing – makeover of the White House’s decor has taken place during the president’s second term. One colour theme stands outIn just seven extraordinary months, Donald Trump’s administration has left an unprecedented mark on the United States. From rewriting the rules of free trade to upending the norms of due process and challenging scientific orthodoxy, no corner of the country has remained untouched, including the president’s own centre of power: the Oval Office.Leaning into his former career as a real estate developer and hotelier, the president has, in his own words, applied some “Trump touches” to the room’s decor. The results have split opinions, with some calling the revamped office a symbol of America’s new golden age, while other have compared it to a professional wrestler’s dressing room. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’

When war broke out between India and China, the author and her brother were taken by their mother on a chaotic journey from hill station squat to an eccentric household in Kerala. Would they ever find a safe space?A teacher was what my mother had always wanted to be, what she was qualified to be. During the years she was married and living with our father, who had a job as an assistant manager on a remote tea estate in Assam, the dream of pursuing a career of any kind atrophied and fell away. It was rekindled (as nightmare more than dream) when she realised that her husband, like many young men who worked on lonely tea estates, was hopelessly addicted to alcohol.When war broke out between India and China in October 1962, women and children were evacuated from border districts. We moved to Calcutta. Once we got there, my mother decided that she would not return to Assam. From Calcutta we travelled across the country, all the way south to Ootacamund – Ooty – a small hill station in th...

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3 w. ago Skoda reveals (slightly) more of new electric Octavia Estate concept

Thinly disguised Vision O concept previews next generation all-electric Skoda Octavia Estate

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3 w. ago Transfer news live: Spurs near Eze breakthrough, Liverpool on brink of £25m switch, Man Utd and Arsenal update

The latest transfers, gossip and rumours as the deadline begins to pull into view

Economics

3 w. ago JD Vance in Scotland: Police prepare as US Vice President set to arrive at luxury Ayrshire estate this week

The US Vice President is expected to stay at Carnell Estates

Politics

3 w. ago US Vice President JD Vance set to stay at 'luxurious' estate on Ayrshire visit

US Vice President JD Vance is understood to be staying at the Carnell Estates on his visit to Ayrshire later this week

Politics